TaPRA 2025 Applied and Social Theatre CFP
Deadline: March 10, 2025
27-29 August 2025, University of Warwick
Theme: Ways Out: Power and Potencia in Applied Theatre Practices
In last year’s Applied and Social Theatre Working Group gathering, our discussions were often focussed on the material realities and the power relations that constitute our applied theatre ecologies. We discussed, time and again, the power wielded by donors, granting agencies and the like, that seek to define these ecologies by necessitating “tangible outcomes … [resulting in] the...
TaPRA 2024 Applied and Social Theatre working group
Deadline: April 10, 2024
Below the Radar: The minor gestures of applied and social theatre
Applied and social theatre often occurs within the interstices of the ‘mainstream’; both in terms of the contexts in which it takes place and the modes of participatory performance it involves. Debates in this field have attended to the inherent power dynamics and neoliberal agendas that practitioners and artists must navigate with critical awareness to attend to the political potential of socially conscious performance...
